WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Friday praised Intel’s plans to spend $20 billion on a new US semiconductor facility, hailing the ‘historic’ investment even as a global chip shortage fans the inflation wave weighing on his leadership. Biden is urging manufacturers to bring production back to the United States, which was once a leader in … Read more
BEIJING: China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Thursday exhorted the US to cancel the tariffs it had imposed, citing the resultant benefits to consumers and producers across the Pacific amid inflation woes, after US President Joe Biden said that he was not ready for a removal of tariffs imposed by his predecessor. “China has always … Read more
SANTIAGO: Chile’s leftist president-elect Gabriel Boric, whose victory at the polls last month unsettled the markets, on Friday named the country’s Central Bank governor as his finance minister in a young, diverse and woman-majority cabinet. Mario Marcel, an independent politician and former member of the Socialist Party, with which he maintains strong ties, announced his … Read more
India’s cricket experts called for changes in the team after South Africa’s one-day series whitewash following Virat Kohli’s exit as skipper. India lost their third and final ODI by four runs in Cape Town to end a disappointing tour that also saw the tourists lose the Test series 2-1. Quinton de Kock’s 124 set up … Read more
BEIJING: Chinese investors are pivoting to new opportunities in hard technologies with venture capital investments in related areas hitting a new high, which experts believe will help replicate the success of the consumer internet in new growth. Hard tech, which is also known as deep tech, is the term coined for areas that rely heavily … Read more
BEIJING: China will be able to achieve around 5.5 per cent GDP growth this year, and it has room for making macroeconomic policy adjustments to support the economy, experts said on Friday. Zhu Guangyao, former vice-minister of finance, told a news briefing in Beijing that the economy’s potential growth rate will likely be between 5 … Read more
Pakistan’s top professional boxer Muhammad Waseem’s journey has truly been inspirational where he has overcome all sorts of hurdles to shine at the biggest stages of the world. Waseem, who is also known as Falcon, is all set to have another feather in his cap as he is scheduled to take on International Boxing Federation … Read more
Sharon Stone’s memoir The Beauty of Living Twice is unlike other autobiographies by Hollywood celebrities; for one she doesn’t rely on photographs despite being one of the most beautiful women to grace the screen. Secondly, she talks about everything from her personal life to her Hollywood career without holding back anything, and that’s something not … Read more
KARACHI: The menace of counterfeit drugs is a global phenomenon. But the situation in developing countries like Pakistan is particularly disturbing. It is alleged that the Pakistani market is filled with almost 50 per cent spurious drugs. However, according to a survey conducted last year by Profit, a local publication, more than 40pc of medicines … Read more
BEIJING: The stark contrast between the lives of two coronavirus patients unearthed by Chinese contact tracers sparked a widespread debate on Thursday over the country’s entrenched wealth inequality. One patient recently infected in Beijing went skiing, shopped at Dior and watched live comedy. Another hauled construction waste through the night across China’s capital, working more … Read more
KARACHI: During 2010-2019, 22,858 cases of cancer were indexed at the Dow Cancer Registry, Bol News has learnt. Of these, 4,400 were diagnosed as lip and oral cavity cancer which was the most common malignancy in males and the second most common in females. However, circumstantial evidence suggests that the true number of oral cancer … Read more
When it comes to the world of cinema, there are several landmark films that not only change the way we think but also deliver an intense and raw perspective into human life, eventually holding up for years to come. While these may be for a niche audience or tend to have a certain art-house quality … Read more
NEW YORK: American Airlines reported another quarterly loss Thursday after the latest Covid-19 surge dented demand at the end of the year, but said consumers were booking more trips for the spring. The big US carrier echoed rivals Delta Air Lines and United Airlines in citing the Omicron wave of Covid-19 as a recent drag … Read more
France head coach Fabien Galthie said on Wednesday captain Antoine Dupont is “doing well” after contracting coronavirus and is likely to feature in next month’s Six Nations openers. World player of the year Dupont, 25, last played on December 11 after suffering a knee injury and then testing positive for Covid-19 with Italy heading to … Read more
PESHAWAR: Apart from the unique geographical location and mountainous beauty of the mineral-rich Hindu Kush, Karakorum, Himalaya and Balochistan ranges, the tribal regions of Pakistan are also famous for their distinctive variety and exquisite quality of natural resources. The region comprising newly merged areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is blessed with a variety of rare and … Read more
Put a great female cast in one TV show pilot and you get a sure-shot hit series; put them in a good romantic film and it might end up with an Academy Award. However, the experiment of putting as many as four wonderful actresses together for an action film failed so badly that no one … Read more
PARIS: The world’s 10 wealthiest men doubled their fortunes during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic as poverty and inequality soared, a report said. Oxfam said the men’s wealth jumped from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, at an average rate of $1.3 billion per day, in a briefing published before a virtual mini-summit … Read more
Climate change is threatening the future of the Winter Olympics, reducing the number of suitable venues for the event around the globe, a report warned ahead of the Beijing Games. The Olympics in China, which start on February 4, will be the first Winter Games to rely almost 100% on artificial snow, according to the … Read more
Inventing Anna – Limited Series A limited tv series based on the New York article titled How Anna Delvey (played by Julia Garner) tricked New York’s party people follows a journalist, Vivian (Anna Chlumsky) on a journey to delve deeper into the case of Anna Delvey or Anna Sorokin, no one can really be sure. … Read more
WASHINGTON: After contracting in 2020, US economic growth saw its biggest increase since 1984 with a rebound to 5.7 per cent in 2021, the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government reported. But the hit from the Omicron variant of the virus held down the recovery in the final quarter of the year, when … Read more
QUETTA: Sahib Dad, a resident of Mumtaz Town in Quetta, has been facing difficulties for the last many years due to the accumulation of garbage outside his house. “I have filed complaints many a times at the Metropolitan Corporation Quetta with regard to the piles of garbage outside my residence, but the authorities have failed … Read more
TAIPEI: Every day, Aiden Lee joins the hundreds of thousands of people getting around Taipei on two wheels. But when most of his fellow riders head to a petrol pump to refuel, he takes his e-motorbike to one of Taiwan’s increasingly commonplace battery-swapping stations — tech its creators say could supercharge the shift from fossil … Read more
ISLAMABAD: A number of ‘Smart City Libraries’ have been launched in various parts of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) by the corporate sector in collaboration with the Capital Development Authority (CDA). They are open for all and no formal membership is required to get books sanctioned for reading. Anyone can collect a book from here … Read more
KARACHI: It seems like Karachi cannot get enough of the diversity and rich flavours that Chinese cuisine has to offer with so many new joints opening from time to time. Among these is Shanghai Social, the new kid on the block with a modern Chinese kitchen that takes you on an exciting trip to Shanghai’s … Read more
Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah have helped Liverpool conquer England and Europe, now both crave Africa Cup of Nations winners’ medals. Both sharpshooters will be in quarter-finals action on Sunday in Cameroon with Mane-inspired Senegal tackling surprise packets Equatorial Guinea while Salah and his Egypt teammates confront Morocco. Mane says he would “swap all the … Read more
Rafael Nadal marched into the final of the Australian Open to be just one match away from becoming the all-time men’s Grand Slam leader after overcoming Matteo Berrettini in the semi-final on Friday. The 35-year-old Spanish great, seeded sixth, was too solid for the Italian seventh seed, winning 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in 2hr 55min, … Read more
For whatever reason, all of us have taken to the belief that good skin can only be achieved by investing in high-end skincare brands and products that cost you a fortune. Let us stop you there and tell you that it’s a myth, that lucky for you, we’re about to debunk! You can easily achieve … Read more
Gorakh Hills When you think of hill stations in Pakistan, the first one that comes to your mind is Murree, and when you’re a Karachiite, the prospects of spending the weekend in Murree sound a little too far-fetched. But let us tell you, Sindh too, has its own hill station called the Gorakh Hills. Situated … Read more
